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Date:      Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:07:41 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        f f <smowball99@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IRC and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010114130741.B4391@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20010114051220.18407.qmail@web9108.mail.yahoo.com>; from smowball99@yahoo.com on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:12:20PM -0800
References:  <20010114051220.18407.qmail@web9108.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:12:20PM -0800, f f wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
>   Hello, first has anyone successfully been able to
> run a IRC Server on FreeBSD beyond the 1024 user
> limit?
> if you have is there any documentation out there that
> explains how to raise this limit above 1024?

You might want to bump the MAXUSERS option of your kernel, and recompile.
If you only hit the file descriptor limit, tweaking the following sysctls
might get you where you want.

	kern.maxfiles: 2048
	kern.maxfilesperproc: 2048

If you change these with a command like:

	# sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=2048

then you might also find it useful to store their new values in
/etc/sysctl.conf so that they will be set to these new values upon the next
system boot too.  Do it now, do not wait until the next reboot, because you
might not remember this change when the system boots :)

- giorgos



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